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Review of Nowruz

Nowruz

Aga Khan Master Musicians

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★★

The six musicians comprising this group have all been involved in the Aga Khan Music Programme as performers, teachers and...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2023

Review of Maison Maquis

Maison Maquis

Sages Comme des Sauvages

Capitane Records

Rating: ★★★★

This third album by one of France’s leading avant-pop bands is as whacky and genre-defying as the name the two...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: September/2024

Review of Cold Sea

Cold Sea

Oisin Leech

Outside Music

Rating: ★★★

Cold Sea is the first solo release from Oisin Leech, who may be more familiar as one half of Irish...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2024

Review of A.O.E.I.U (An Ordinary Exercise in Unity)

A.O.E.I.U (An Ordinary Exercise in Unity)

Florence Adooni

Philophon

Rating: ★★★★

Florence Adooni is a singer born to the Frafra people of northeast Ghana. She grew up performing in church choirs...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2025

Review of Aden

Aden

Gwilym Bowen Rhys

Recordiau Erwydd

Rating: ★★★★

Gwilym Bowen Rhys, a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Bethel, north Wales, is hailed as a rising star in Welsh folk...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2025

Review of Vol 2

Vol 2

Nahawa Doumbia

Awesome Tapes from Africa

Rating: ★★★

The Awesome Tapes from Africa label started by reissuing Vol 3 by Malian singer Nahawa in 2011, and followed it...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: February/March/2025

Review of Macaronesia Vol. 1

Macaronesia Vol. 1

Entre Ilhas

CAAM

Rating: ★★★

Entre Ilhas is one of those projects that must be praised for its historical and conceptual relevance, being potentially the...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: September/2025

Review of Vie Kaz

Vie Kaz

Votia

Ajabu!

Rating: ★★★★

Votia, a group from La Réunion, come steeped in tradition: powerfully voiced lead singer Marie-Claude Philéas Lambert is the daughter...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2025

Review of Aratan n Azawad

Aratan n Azawad

Terakaft

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

No surprise that Terakaft – the name means ‘caravan’ in Tamasheq – stayed pretty close to the sound of the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2011

Review of Anatolian Sun

Anatolian Sun

Moğollar

Night Dreamer

Rating: ★★★★

Moğollar (the Mongols) were the original Anatolian rockers and coiners of the term ‘Anatolian pop.’ Back in the late 60s...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2021

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